Month: September 2016

The first week was one of the wettest ever! Not much chance to wander around and make images.
Standing under a flap I did make many clips that assembled nicely into a short video. So everyone can experience the wonders of another day of nonstop rain.

Reading, Photo Magazines of course, consumed much of the time during the first week.
Started reading the “VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography” Book by David duChemin as well.
Watching episodes of “Dead like Me” and “BloodTies” on the old laptop helped pass some of the time.
All the while helping our diet with many varities of custom health foods.

rain food #junkfood #junkfoodjunkie

Also managed to watch all four of the “Pirates of the Carabian”, three of the “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Back to the Beach” (a Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello) DVD movies in the soaking evenings during that week.

Innovation to keep the wet out!

We did need to innovate a bit and created rain cover stands from 3 inch ABS DWV pipe TEEs. Making the cable end connection inside the pipe fitting is a bit of a trick, but it can be done.
Place one end of the 30amp cord in one side and down into the 90 bend. Then put the other end from the next cord in from the other side and push them together inside the fitting.
The 15amp cord had to pass through frist, there is no room for its ends once the fat 30 amp ends were in place! Then you just stand them up, keeps the connectors dry and up of the wet forest floor. As long as the water does not rise too far!
Or just use bigger 4 inch pipe tees instead! Though they take up much more space to store.
Worked out well for us , no rain caused shorts or power outages, the laptop and camera batteries all charged up and kept on working!

Really good TED talk on why we waste huge amounts of our limited free time on the web.

Doing thing like S&M (Social Media) that actually makes people less than happy.

Surprising or not the tech wizard from silly valley including the creators of the ipad drastically restrict their kids access to tech.

And some innovative companies in the EU that actively prevent people from accessing work after 6pm or in Germany a car manufacturer automatically deleting emails sent to employees on vacation.(if you are on vacation you are on vacation, no work and nothing piles up waiting for your return)

Time wasting Social Media is not good for your health.SoTurn off, Sign off, Log out and get a hobby instead.